Saw some UNREAL shit when cycling today...

Dante · Aug 14, 2006

I am doing my normal 40.5 mile road ride on mondays with this group of about 13 guys and gals, we have been doing this for about 4 months....at the beginning of the ride We where talking about how some of the rodies had Ultra thin tires...Mine are a bit wider but still fast....anyway about 3/4 of the way back we are in a line drafting I am 5th in the line of 13

I happen to look up Just in time to see the front rider hit some kind of small rock...He does a 360 header Bounces off his back onto his side and :icon_conf

lands on his fucken head...I thought he was DEAD....the second guy crashes and I manage by the grace of god to move to the right and out of the way only slightly stopping hard...

ambulance came and all that ..we where going about 22 miles and hr...

the most UNREAL shit I have every seen:smoker2: looked like a movie...The guy was not moving to good but was talking... small tiny tires SUCK as I was telling them earlier

:smoking:

WorldNumberOne · Aug 14, 2006

that is why i only take pleasure cruises on my bike up and down the beach.

got a beer holder on the handle bars.

got my baggies on , my shades on and bikinis all around...

i usually go about 3 miles per hour..

wolfie_cr · Aug 14, 2006

Dante , are you the one from Idaho? or was it Journeyman?

Dante · Aug 14, 2006

wolfie_cr said:
Dante , are you the one from Idaho? or was it Journeyman?

me wolfy...we have killer mtns here to ride I know your into that...saw you post about it

TTinCO · Aug 14, 2006

No helmet?

wolfie_cr · Aug 14, 2006

Dante said:
me wolfy...we have killer mtns here to ride I know your into that...saw you post about it

BEAUTIFUL man, just beautiful

I just drove through most of it , 2 weeks ago

I am considering buying land there just as an investment (I am sure the winters are brutal)

I drove from Vegas all the way up to Lewiston

You are a lucky man (except for winters and even then I am sure you guys adapt to it )

Fishhead · Aug 14, 2006

Spread out..............glad your safe.

Spread out or go solo...............wow, you live dangerously son.

Dante · Aug 14, 2006

TTinCO said:
No helmet?

he had a helmet nobody rides with us without one

Dante · Aug 14, 2006

Fishhead said:
Spread out..............glad your safe.

Spread out or go solo...............wow, you live dangerously son.

had that been me....would have been UGLY:smoking:

achandicap · Aug 14, 2006

I'm a triathlete, and have been in those kind of packs before. When you know who you're riding with, crashes like that are pretty rare....but they do happen. It's the risk you take for saving 30 percent of your energy by drafting. Hope everyone is OK and no one bent up a bike too badly.

Dante · Aug 14, 2006

achandicap said:
I'm a triathlete, and have been in those kind of packs before. When you know who you're riding with, crashes like that are pretty rare....but they do happen. It's the risk you take for saving 30 percent of your energy by drafting. Hope everyone is OK and no one bent up a bike too badly.

I hear ya ..but this guy was experienced he just hit a rock...in the wrong place on his tire is what I assume